After the initial seeding Veeam et al (my experience is with a product called Zerto) are writing to a vdk at the destination. The piece running on the host is hooked into the file system. File writes (includes deletion) are mirrored to the remote vdk. There's nothing to restore. Think of it as RAID 1 for servers with a manual failover. The solution does require control over DNS and/or BGP to handle the address change. There are some other details but that's the 10,000 foot view.
On Aug 9, 2013, at 5:20, "Ken Schaefer" <[email protected]> wrote: > Haven’t you for more data to restore, which increases the restore time? > > That said, if you’re not using the “offsite storage” option, was does this > give you over Windows Server backup? > > Cheers > Ken > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of Daniel Chenault > Sent: Friday, 9 August 2013 10:18 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] RE: Veeam or Altaro? > > All use of resources is done with the idea that it is a trade-off. In this > case there is, as Brian noted, lots of cycles and storage to store full > images ala the subject line products. In this case the payoff in resource > usage is the ability to spin that vm up on a moment's notice without a > potentially lengthy restore process. The advantage bought by spending the > resources is time. > > On Aug 8, 2013, at 12:59, "Brian Desmond" <[email protected]> wrote: > > Seems to me like a lot of storage and cycles for something that might have > very little value if you have the ability to simply redeploy the app and > restore the data. > > Thanks, > Brian Desmond > [email protected] > > w – 312.625.1438 | c – 312.731.3132 > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of Pierre-Marie Camilleri > Sent: Thursday, August 8, 2013 1:37 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [NTSysADM] RE: Veeam or Altaro? > > Why? Is there anything wrong in backing up whole VMs? > > Thanks > Pierre > > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of Brian Desmond > Sent: 08 August 2013 04:04 > To: [email protected] > Subject: [NTSysADM] RE: Veeam or Altaro? > > Why are you backing up whole VMs versus just protecting specific data? > > Thanks, > Brian Desmond > [email protected] > > w – 312.625.1438 | c – 312.731.3132 > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of Pierre-Marie Camilleri > Sent: Tuesday, August 6, 2013 3:25 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [NTSysADM] Veeam or Altaro? > > Hi all > > Is anyone using Veeam or Altaro for performing backups and restores of VMs? > Would appreciate any feedback, good and bad regarding these products. > > Thanks > Pierre >
